Happy Everything

Ēostre or Ostara (Northumbrian Old English: Ēostre; West Saxon Old English: Ēastre; Old High German: *Ôstara) is a goddess in Germanic paganism who, by way of the Germanic month bearing her name (Northumbrian: Ēosturmōnaþ; West Saxon: Ēastermōnaþ; Old High German: Ôstarmânoth), is the namesake of the festival of Easter. Ēostre is attested by Bede in his 8th-century work De temporum ratione, where Bede states that during Ēosturmōnaþ (the equivalent to the month of April) feasts were held in Eostre's honor among the pagan Anglo-Saxons, but had died out by the time of his writing. 

Hello people. It's another holiday period for many around the world. I was going to try and be clever and research all the different denominations' equivalents of Easter, but time is in short supply here at the Article, so instead I copy-pasted a bit of the ol' Wiki page on the subject (above).

Let me just say then, happy times to all, peace and goodwill, all that good stuff. Articles Part 2 coming after the weekend, when I get back from Wrocław. See you all then!

- Jim :)

Opinion Pole

Hail Translator, well met! Today I'd like to take a moment to just knock heads with you about a couple of things to do with this here bloggy. At the bottom of the page I've added a poll, with about a year's worth of time on it to vote. I'm asking you for feedback on the way I write about the 'issues', the actual technical stuff we discuss here.

I'm aware that some translators, or maybe most, like their explanations to be fully and properly presented using all the right technical lingo for explaining language issues. Crazy, mind-rending terms like conjugation, adjective, case, third-person singular and other lunatic dream-speak.

So, to get to the point, I'm also aware that I tend to avoid a lot of this where necessary. To me, this means that certain really gruby, soczysty issues get delayed for ages because my research time for our blog articles is often quite limited. I've been working mostly from existing notes so far, but there are things we can do which require a bit more effort.

But generally speaking, from the poll at the bottom, I can sort of gauge how happy you all are with the explanations so far. Personally, I feel like our vocabulary and formatting items are the meat of the blog, and the rest is just gravy (yumm). But what do you think? Take a moment to click a button, or if you feel really strongly either way, you can email me or leave a comment below. Alrighty? Good good, carry on!